Internment Archives

Critique of the Smithsonian Institution's Exhibit:
"A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution"

(page 12 of 21)

Appendix 7 -- Quote from Johnson v Eisentrager

The Supreme Court in Johnson v. Eisentrager said, "Executive power over
enemy aliens, undelayed and unhampered by litigation, has been deemed, throughout
our history, essential to war-time security.... The resident enemy alien is
constitutionally subject to summary arrest, internment and deportation whenever
a 'declared war' exists."